Event Details

Research Seminar

Title TBD – An Update from the MPH Expert Panel of the Framing the Future Task Force, convened by ASPPH

Friday, February 7, 2014 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

"An Update from the MPH Expert Panel of the Framing the Future Task Force, convened by ASPPH" Lisa Sullivan, PhD, Associate Dean of Education, Boston University School of Public
Health and Professor and Chair, Boston University Department of Biostatistics

Lisa Sullivan has a PhD in Statistics and is Professor of Biostatistics and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics. She teaches Biostatistics for MPH students and was instrumental in
developing a minor program in public health which is open to undergraduate students at Boston University. Lisa is the Principal Investigator of the Summer Institute for Training in Biostatistics
which is designed to promote interest in the field of biostatistics and its many exciting career opportunities. The program ran for the first time in the summer of 2004. Lisa is co-author of a
textbook entitled Introductory Applied Biostatistics, author of Essentials of Biostatistics in Public Health (currently in its second edition) and Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Clinical
Trials. She is the recipient of numerous teaching awards for excellence in teaching. Lisa is a senior statistician on the Framingham Heart Study working primarily in developing and disseminating
cardiovascular risk functions. She is active in multidisciplinary research projects including a variety of projects in cardiovascular disease, a large epidemiological study to assess the
association between alcohol exposure in pregnancy and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), studies to improve methods for prenatal diagnosis and a clinical trial to improve repetitive behaviors in
children affected with autism.